Twitter’s Founding Engineer Launches Collaboration Platform, Poetica | TechCrunch
The ability to collaborate on the draft of a document is actually fiendishly tedious online. Many people might be used to Microsoft Word ‘Track Changes’ (ugh) despite the fact it looks awful and takes some getting used to. Nor does Google Docs really create a collaboration experience that mere mortals can get into. Step in Poetica, a brand new startup co-founded by Blaine Cook, formerly Twitter’s founding lead engineer.
artoo · The client-side scraping companion.
artoo is a piece of JavaScript code meant to be run in your browser's console to provide you with some scraping utilities. This nice droid is loaded into the JavaScript context of any webpage through a handy bookmarklet you can instantly install by dropping the above icon onto your bookmark bar.
Slingshot Blog
To get started on Slingshot, shoot a photo or video. It can be what you’re up to, who you’re with or a quick selfie. Add some text and color, then sling it to a bunch of friends. Here’s the deal: friends won’t be able to see your shot until they sling something back to you. They can then reply with a reaction—or simply swipe your shot away.
Nokia ‘paid millions to software blackmailers’: TV | Timmins Press
Finnish telecoms equipment company Nokia paid several million euros to criminals who threatened to reveal the source code for part of an operating system used in its smartphones some six years ago, Finnish TV station MTV said on Tuesday.
Quackmail: Why You Shouldn’t Fall For The Internet’s Newest Fool, The Food Babe. – Forbes
That the media should give The Food Babe a free pass as an expert or as a credible consumer watchdog is especially troubling when you look at some of her other claims, as recorded by the doctors at Science-Based Medicine. As infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip MD noted, Hari out goops Gwyneth Paltrow on the feelings of water by claiming that if you expose water to the words “Hitler” and “Satan” it will change its physical structure in exactly the same way as if you microwaved it. She believes getting the flu shot will give you cancer from all the “chemicals.” She is, naturally, against GMOs.
We zijn topfavoriet, maar waarom zit ons dat niet lekker? – Rode Duivels – De Morgen
Nationale symboliek, op spiegelsokjes en daarbuiten, valt vele Belgen nog altijd moeilijk. Juist het gebrek aan nationale trots is immers mettertijd de kern gaan vormen van wat je de Belgische non-identiteit zou kunnen gaan noemen. Ziedaar de geboorte van de 'belgitude'. Het is de ironische en afstandelijke omhelzing van het eigen nationale tekort als vorm van identiteit. Het is de omschrijving met een mengeling van trots en schaamte van dit land als een licht surrealistische plek waar niets kan maar alles mogelijk is. De poging om de Belgische trots over het nog prille voetbalsucces te duiden als een heropleving van die belgitude zit dan ook fout. Optimistische verwachtingen over sportprestaties staan juist haaks op de belgitude. Met zijn verwarrende mix van beats en tristesse past Stromae in de belgitude, een perfecte dribbel van Eden Hazard niet.